The Option

The Option — Plot

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.

• Release date
• November 5, 1981
• Runtime
• 88 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

The Option — Cast

C

Carmem Angélica

N

Nere di Passi

C

Carmem Ortega Virgílio Roveda Alan Fontaine Jairo Ferreira José Lopes Affonso Brazza